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• Agnes Mona Anatipa Mc Gregor, Mataora Bay, New Zealand († 1998)
• Athol Dennis LAPTHORNE († 2012)
• Adriana Magdalena Hoogerbrugge, Elst († 2015)
• Damsten, Rotterdam († 1927)
• Bernardus Johannes Marinus Game, Weerselo († 1934)
• Berend Jan Bernardus Elfrink, Coevorden († 2003)
• Alf Lennart ROSENGREN, Limhamn,Malmö Kommun,Skåne,SWEDEN († 2015)
• Antonia Francisca van den Wildenberg, Veldhoven († 1999)
• Cornelia Agatha Petronella Franken, Noordwijkerhout († 2007)
• Chester Dykema, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan († 2016)

• (Stillborn) Regterschot (van Regteren,van Rechteren) (0), Epe, Nederland
• Damsten (0), Rotterdam
• Anna van der Waal (40), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinette Vermeire (85), Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland
• Catharina Hermens (74)
• Bertus Wetering (77), Ommen, Ambt
• Antje Mol (60), Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Christina Olivier (75), Salt Lake City-Utah (USA)
• Aloysius Leonardus Crombeen (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dolron (66), Nieuw Helvoet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1924 » Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist († 1999)
• 1926 » Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet († 2005)
• 1927 » Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian († 1959)
• 1927 » Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat († 2012)
• 1928 » Alice Drummond, American actress († 2016)
• 1928 » Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer († 1975)
• 1929 » Larance Marable, American drummer († 2012)
• 1929 » Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer († 2000)
• 1930 » Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby player († 2019)
• 1930 » Tommy Bryant, American bassist († 1982)

• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 » Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (b. 1888)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Gerardus
12. Jacob
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Helena
14. Aaltje
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
• January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
• July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
• July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
• September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
• December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

The temperature on May 21, 1927 was between 8.8 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.